© Robert J. Galbraith/Montreal GazetteA woman successfully fended off a bear attack in Montana with the only weapon she could find - a large zucchini, officials said Thursday.
According to media reports, the woman was on her back porch at midnight Wednesday when a 90-kilogram black bear attacked one of her dogs.
In the ensuing attack, the bear bit the woman in the leg. That was when, local police officials say, the woman reached for the closest item - a large zucchini she had just harvested, sitting on the porch railing - and flung it at the bear.
The bear, struck by the vegetable, fled.
Officials say the woman did not require medical attention.
It does seem odd that she was harvesting zucchini at Midnight, was she hungry or frustrated?